Paar Chanaa De Cover Song | Meenal Jain | Shilpa Rao & Noori | Bazm e Khas

Bazm-e-khas, a unique caravan of music of India, presents Paar Chanaa De by Meenal Jain.

Singer : Meenal Jain
Music Re-created by : Geetesh Yadav & Parth Dubey
Percussions : Shreshth Parashar
Video : Abhishek Chincholker
Video Edited By : Geetesh Yadav & Parth Dubey
Audio Recorded At : Euphony Studio Mumbai
Audio Produced At : Nevil Productions
Location : Recreate Spaces Mumbai

About Meenal Jain:

Meenal Jain (born 14 June 1985 in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India) was top 6 finalist in the reality show Indian Idol 2 on Indian television. She also sang the song "Sakhi" on Aamir Khan's show Satyamev Jayate's seventh episode which was on domestic violence.

About Paar Chanaa De song story:

In the 18th century (late Mughal period), the beautiful girl Sohni was born to a potter named Tulla (Toolha). They were from the Kumhar caste, and lived in Gujrat, Punjab. At the time, Gujrat, on the river Chenab, was a caravanserai on the trade route between Bukhara and Delhi.

As Sohni grew up, she helped her father decorate his pots. Their shop is said to have been near Rampyari Mahal by the river. As soon as the Surahis (water-pitchers) and mugs came off the wheel, she would draw artistic designs on them and set them up for sale.

Shahzada Izzat Baig, a rich trader from Bukhara (Uzbekistan), came to Punjab on business and halted in Gujrat. Here he saw Sohni at the shop and was completely smitten. Just to get a glimpse of Sohni, he would end up buying the water pitchers and mugs every day.

Sohni too lost her heart to Izzat Baig. Instead of returning to Bukhara with his caravan, the noble-born Izzat Baig took up the job of a servant in the house of Tulla. He would even take their buffaloes for grazing. Soon, he came to be known as Mehar or "Mahiwal" (buffalo herder).

Sohni's marriage:

The love of Sohni and Mahiwal caused a commotion within the Kumhar community. It was not acceptable that a daughter from this community would marry an outsider, so her parents immediately arranged her marriage with another potter. On the day the "barat" (marriage party) of that potter arrived at her house, Sohni felt helpless and lost. She was sent off to the husband's house in a Doli (palanquin).

Izzat Baig renounced the world and started living as a faqir (hermit). He eventually moved to a small hut across the river Chenab from Sohni's new home hamirpur. In the dark of night, when the world was fast asleep, the lovers would meet by the river. Izzat would come to the riverside and Sohni would come to meet him swimming with the help of an inverted hard baked pitcher (inverted so that it would not sink). He would regularly catch a fish and bring it for her. It is said that once, when due to high tide he could not catch a fish, Mahiwal cut a piece of his thigh and roasted it. Sohni didn't realise this at first but then she told Izzat that this fish tastes different. When she kept her hand on his leg, she realised what Mahiwal had done and this only strengthened their love for each other. Meanwhile, rumours of their romantic rendezvous spread. One day Sohni’s sister-in-law followed her and saw the hiding place where Sohni kept her earthenware pitcher. She informed her mother, Sohni's mother-in-law, and instead of telling Sohni's husband (who was away on a business trip), the women decided to take the decision in their own hands and finish the matter. The next day, the sister-in-law removed the hard baked pitcher and replaced it with an unbaked one. That night, when Sohni tried to cross the river with the help of the pitcher, it dissolved in the water and Sohni drowned. From the other side of the river, Mahiwal saw Sohni drowning and jumped into the river to save her and drowned as well. Thus, the lovers were reunited in death.

Original Song Credits:-
Singer | Shilpa Rao
Music Directed by Noori
Coke studio season 9
Produced by Strings

You can listen to Paar Chana De (Meenal Jain's version) on
Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/album/3PF8nQ...
Apple Music :   / paar-chana-de-single  
Jio savvn : https://www.jiosaavn.com/song/paar-ch...
Amazon Music : https://music.amazon.in/albums/B0BD28....

The idea behind this upload is to preserve this great treasure of live music produced by BeK for all the music lovers and students of Hindustani music.

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